List of tanks and armoured vehicles of the Imperial Japanese Navy

This is a list of tanks and armoured vehicles of the Imperial Japanese Navy (World War II).

Japanese Type 2 Ka-Mi amphibious tank being tested by Australian soldiers, 1945

Tankettes, light and medium tanks

Type 89A I-Go tank of a SNLF unit

• Type Ka Kijusha (a/k/a Type Ka machine gun car) (Carden Loyd tankette)
• Type 92 heavy armoured car (tankette)
• Type 94 tankette
• Type 97 Te-Ke tankette
• Type 95 Ha-Go light tank
• Type 89 I-Go medium tank (Chi-Ro)
• Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank
• Type 97 ShinHōtō Chi-Ha medium tank (Kai; improved)

Amphibious tanks

Type 2 Ka-Mi tanks on Saipan

• Type 1 Mi-Sha (a/k/a Type 1 Ka-Mi) amphibious tank (prototype)
• Type 2 Ka-Mi amphibious tank
• Type 3 Ka-Chi amphibious medium tank
• Type 5 To-Ku amphibious heavy tank (prototype)

Amphibious APC

• Type 4 Ka-Tsu amphibious APC vehicle

Self-Propelled vehicles

Short barrel 120 mm gun tanks at the Naval Yard in Sasebo

• Short barrel 120 mm gun tank
• Long barrel 12 cm self-propelled gun (experimental)

Armoured cars

• Vickers Crossley armoured car
• Type 2592 Chiyoda armored car
• Sumida Model P armored car (variant of the Type 91 Sumida M.2593)
• Type 93 armoured car (a/k/a Type 2593 Hokoku, Type 93 Kokusanor or "Type 92" naval armored car)

Cars and trucks

• Type 95 recon car mini-truck
• Amphibious truck Su-Ki

See also

Imperial Japanese Navy land forces

References

• Foss, Christopher (2003). Tanks: The 500. Crestline. ISBN 0-7603-1500-0.
• Tomczyk, Andrzej (2002). Japanese Armor Vol. 1. AJ Press. ISBN 83-7237-097-4.
• Tomczyk, Andrzej (2007) [2002]. Japanese Armor Vol. 2. AJ Press. ISBN 978-8372371119.
• Tomczyk, Andrzej (2003). Japanese Armor Vol. 3. AJ Press. ISBN 978-8372371287.
• Tomczyk, Andrzej (2005). Japanese Armor Vol. 4. AJ Press. ISBN 978-8372371676.
• Tomczyk, Andrzej (2007). Japanese Armor Vol. 5. AJ Press. ISBN 978-8372371799.
• Zaloga, Steven J. (2007). Japanese Tanks 1939–45. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-8460-3091-8.

External links

• History of War.org
• Taki's Imperial Japanese Army Page - Akira Takizawa